In pursuance of a Call issued some weeks since, the friends of RELIGIOUS LIBERTY assembled at the Broadway Tabernacle last evening, under the auspices of the American and Foreign Christian Union, for the purpose of expressing their sense of the propriety of protecting American citizens in foreign lands, in the full enjoyment of their rights of conscience and of worship.View Full Article in Timesmachine »

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A version of this archives appears in print on January 27, 1854, on Page 1 of the New York edition with the headline: RELIGIOUS LIBERTY.; MEETING AT THE TABERNACLE. American and Foreign Christian Union. Protection of American Citizens Abroad. STATEMENT OF FACTS. THE AID OF OUR GOVERNMENT INVOKED. ADDRESS OF DAVID D. FIELD, ESQ. SPEECH OF HIRAM KETCHUM Speeches of Hon. George Wood, Rev. S. Robinson and Rev. Mr. Kirk, Letters from Hon. Edward Everett, Hon. D. D. Barnard, Hon. Abbott Lawrence, Hon. Henry A. Wise, &c. &c. THE STATEMENT. Order Reprints|Today's Paper|Subscribe